Ethnography

Since our group is looking at health care for immigrants, we are anticipating a lot of difficulty surrounding the interviewing process, so we are trying to decide if interviews would be the most effective way of gathering information or if surveys and more of a focus on information availability for immigrants is the way to go. The main problems we anticipate are:

1. Finding Doctors to interview in the month of August. After talking to the health care group from last year's program we learned that in August pretty much everyone is on vacation, including doctors, and they had a hard time contacting anyone. If we cannot contact any health care providers, where should we turn for information?
2. Finding immigrants to interview. We are really excited about our research topic, but we still aren't sure how to go about contacting immigrants who will be willing to answer questions that we have because obviously we just can't walk up to any non-dutch speaking individual and ask them if they are immigrants. We were thinking about visiting cultural centers to find possible sources but we don't know where those are located in the city or how appropriate it would be for us to go there and try and ask such sensitive questions.
3. The third big problem kind of ties into the others, and that is how to formulate appropriate questions that can provide us with meaningful information/incite.